Giant moon illusion expected in tonight's skyPORTSMOUTH — If the moon looks especially huge tonight, fear not: It’s all in your mind.
According to the Web site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the full moon will hang low on the horizon and look unusually large this Wednesday night. Though it may appear to be huge, it’s actually an optical illusion.
....and so, spurred on by a snippet of news I went looking for the moon only to return home disappointed. Maybe it was hiding behind a cloud or a hill, who knows, but I was finally moved today to try to answer the question; "why does the moon sometimes look gigantic when it's close to the horizon?" To my great surprise the official answer is; "Nobody really knows." It's not atmospheric refraction nor is it the wonderfully named Ponzo Illusion best illustrated by an actual picture (it's a real photo, I swear on the life of my favorite kid) of me lying on a train track in St. 
Emilion, France (don't ask!). I cut and pasted my image further down the track......which one is bigger??? Wrong!! They're both exactly the same.
Anyways, everyone who's wrestled with this puzzle, from the ancient Sumerians to Da Vinci and now me agree that it's our faulty perception, and nothing else, that is the root cause.
If our brains are convincing us that an illusion is reality then that opens up a whole can of worms that maybe we shouldn't be dealing with. This has got me all off balance. I guess I'm just going to keep repeating "seeing is believing" and enjoy the simple life......professional wrestling is fake though, right??
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Hey Mikexxxster, looks like that young lady could use some moisturizing, eh? I bet you could moisturize all over that shit. We could call you Mikexxxster the Moisturizer! That's just your whole pick-up line right there. You're welcome.
Bluesky, thank you so much, not just for the link to that worthy charity but moreso, for restoring a tone of decency here at The Blob after that heinous comment from the hussy Callous.
Maria, must everything be about sex??!!??
Blobbie, you're spot on! That Maria IS a hussy!! A beautiful, bold, saucy wench of a hussy!! But this is not about Maria (as charming as she is!!), though she's absolutely right - never underestimate the importance of moisturising!
As I've said so many times, it's all there (life lessons, that is) in Seinfeld; but also (to a much lesser degree), in Shakespeare too. He wrote, "The moist star (!!!) upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse."
Well!!! As Maria correctly points out, that glorious "moon" (boy!! She could "eclipse" me anytime, anywhere - I most certainly would not be "sick unto doomsday!!!) in your photograph could learn a thing or two from the Bard's "moist star"! I feel, somehow, that I'm just the guy to teach her!! Moon-girl!! You won't be sorry!!! That's The Mikexxxster Guarantee!!!
Speaking of astronomy, Blobber, it was a cynical, yet very wise man who said, "What poor asronomers are they, who take women's eyes for stars!" So true! So true!! Yer ol' buddy, Mikexxxster
Hey there Blob! Long time reader, first time writer............Mikexxxster isn't alone in his appreciation of your dreamy moon-girl!
"Go, lovely Rose that lives it's little hour!
Go, little booke! and let who will be clever!
Roll on! From yonder ivory-mantled tower
The moon and I could keep this up forever."
What a sweet thought!!! I wish!!!! F.P.A.
P.S. It occurs to me that, perhaps, Bluesky is just too noble and good for all the sordid goings-on here at The Blob!! She puts me in mind of the Oscar Wilde quote, "We're all in the gutter; but some of us are looking at the stars!" Bluesky! Help me!! I'm trying to be a better person (well, some of the time, anyway!!) so that I can see the stars too !!! Are you free this weekend??
Men don't make passes at women's moon asses...
FAGS, who in drag while wearing their DRESSES,
Should have NO OPINION on men loving girl's FESSES!
Ok, you asked for it, mr. bitchley. No one loves ass more than gay guys, and women have the nicer asses. anyone will tell you that. So bite it. Yeah, that's right. Bite it and chew. Fucker.
Welcome aboard F.P.A.!!!
It's so nice to have a new voice in the comment section (not that I mind the old ones). Agreed that the comely moon maiden is gibbous in all the right places:
Gib"bous\, a. [Cf. F. gibbeux. See Gibbose.]
1. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.
The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. --Wiseman.
but I disagree with you about Bluesky being too good for The Blob. Nobody, not Bluesky, not nobody, is too good for The Blob. She just needs to lighten up a bit. If you want to hook up with her I'll see what I can do (anything for a new contributor!!). Stay tuned.....
Enough with the swelling, Stop it, I'm qvelling!
And you scholars should stop egging the young lady on. She should be jousting not with men, but with other young ladies, in girl sports, like the mud wrestling and the foxy-boxing.
I'm "staying tuned", Blobby (may I call you Blobby?)!! Something tells me that Bluesky is worth waiting for.......(!!!), but what's up with that Maria "fag-hag" Callous?? What is her problem????? Doesn't she (??) like poetry??
Where, oh where is the logic in her (??) so-called argument??? First, she (is she a she?) claims that "no one loves ass more than gay guys", then she (??) says that women have the nicer asses (no argument there, Maria!!!). The obvious question, then, is why aren't gays the least bit interested in women's asses (of course, I'm talking about when push comes to shove, so to speak!)?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Bob Benchley's point is perfectly valid.....gay men (or fags, if you will) should have no opinion about, and therefore say nothing (!!!) vis a vis the types of female asses that are attractive to straight men!!!
BTW, that Maimonides is some deep thinker!! Especially the Foxyboxing thang!!!
You rock, Blobber!!! F.P.A.
They admire them like good pieces of art, which, hello (!!!), gay men appreciate more too!!
all that punctuation belies the art of one otherwise known as mikester,am I wrong franklin ???
by the way let it be known I have been to 53 on freerice and the air up there is MUCH cleaner!!!
So F.P.A. is actually Mikexxster you say. It all kind of makes sense and Franklin pierce Adams is not so much an alias as a directive to 2 of his playmates on one of those legendary "boy's nights" I've heard so much about.
What a fag.
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